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You don't regret buying Xenoblade Chronicles 2, do you? Well... I guess not every game can live up to it's hype and predecessors.
There is nothing wrong with a female protaganist for me. In fact, I rather have an interesting lead character than the next random white macho dude just because males only play video games. Some of the best games I played such as The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC and SC had a female lead. Estelle was one of the best leading characters I ever experienced in a game. Since then, I became a fan of the developer Nihon Falcom.
I am not really that fond of fan-service myself as well... Most of the time... But it is not really such as big issue for me personally, I can live with that. To put it simply, there are mechanics and ideals that are way more evil. My opinion is just that gameplay should come first, and I don't want my experience to be clouded with political statements such as racism and sexism and I don't want to empty my wallet for the complete experience that should have been complete from the start. I just WANT to play my games... Sometimes you just long for the good old days such as the SNES or N64, in those days it was just you and the game (at least a lot of games did back then that I experienced). Today... Microtransactions, scenes that demonstrate your awesome your white muscular bad-ass dude is, stereotypes such as giant swords and evil church religions, more microtransactions, DLC, waiting times, language cursing, forced multiplayer components, lootboxes, even more DLC, sexist character models, the list goes on. There are still plenty of games avoiding these issues, but there are many more games that just embrace it. That mostly applies to triple AAA games *glares with evil eye towards Overwatch, Call of Duty and Star Wars: Battlefront 2*.
Anyway, I can tolerate these annoyances up to a certain point, until it is no longer about the game itself but the message it tries to convey... There is no avoiding it. I wouldn't almost be able to play a single game anymore if I threw it out of my window every time I got annoyed by it. Likewise I am equally annoyed by pre-rendered scenes when real-time scenes could have been used. That is just a waste of hard-disk space. It is even more annoying if there has to be a separate set of pre-rendered videos for each language... Soooo much wasted space. Just have your games technically correct. A port done wrong is the worst.
There is always Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild! Can't go wrong with that, one of them will be game of the year, I can agree to that. At least my experience of Breath of the Wild on the Wii U demonstrated how a game should really be. No nonsense, just running around the world, exploring, a lot of shrines, quests as they should be, killing monsters, having the adventure you as a gamer should have.
I am all about the best experience in gaming, nothing more, nothing less. Anything else just disturbs the gaming experience. I just wish the real world works would work the same way as well, that would make life easier for everyone.
There is nothing wrong with a female protaganist for me. In fact, I rather have an interesting lead character than the next random white macho dude just because males only play video games. Some of the best games I played such as The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC and SC had a female lead. Estelle was one of the best leading characters I ever experienced in a game. Since then, I became a fan of the developer Nihon Falcom.
I am not really that fond of fan-service myself as well... Most of the time... But it is not really such as big issue for me personally, I can live with that. To put it simply, there are mechanics and ideals that are way more evil. My opinion is just that gameplay should come first, and I don't want my experience to be clouded with political statements such as racism and sexism and I don't want to empty my wallet for the complete experience that should have been complete from the start. I just WANT to play my games... Sometimes you just long for the good old days such as the SNES or N64, in those days it was just you and the game (at least a lot of games did back then that I experienced). Today... Microtransactions, scenes that demonstrate your awesome your white muscular bad-ass dude is, stereotypes such as giant swords and evil church religions, more microtransactions, DLC, waiting times, language cursing, forced multiplayer components, lootboxes, even more DLC, sexist character models, the list goes on. There are still plenty of games avoiding these issues, but there are many more games that just embrace it. That mostly applies to triple AAA games *glares with evil eye towards Overwatch, Call of Duty and Star Wars: Battlefront 2*.
Anyway, I can tolerate these annoyances up to a certain point, until it is no longer about the game itself but the message it tries to convey... There is no avoiding it. I wouldn't almost be able to play a single game anymore if I threw it out of my window every time I got annoyed by it. Likewise I am equally annoyed by pre-rendered scenes when real-time scenes could have been used. That is just a waste of hard-disk space. It is even more annoying if there has to be a separate set of pre-rendered videos for each language... Soooo much wasted space. Just have your games technically correct. A port done wrong is the worst.
There is always Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild! Can't go wrong with that, one of them will be game of the year, I can agree to that. At least my experience of Breath of the Wild on the Wii U demonstrated how a game should really be. No nonsense, just running around the world, exploring, a lot of shrines, quests as they should be, killing monsters, having the adventure you as a gamer should have.
I am all about the best experience in gaming, nothing more, nothing less. Anything else just disturbs the gaming experience. I just wish the real world works would work the same way as well, that would make life easier for everyone.